Life as a Night Porter silas-finch Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

A selection of the artist's most notable portraits

Subjects include Marcel Duchamp

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A loving spirit charges and elevates picture after picture

Life as a Night Porter silas-finch Andy WarholChris Shaw spent ten years working in London hotels, all the while using his camera to document the hotels unexpected human spectacles through the long hours of his shift. Whether capturing prostitutes waiting between Johns, weary hotel staff, the inebriated and profligate guests, or the details of the hotels faded grandeur, Shaws images capture a state of mind in which few people would choose to stay more than a night. I just took photographs to keep